Faculty Profile

Regrettably Professor Pratt passed away on February 19, 2013. Read more about his life and career.

As a registered architect in the state of New York, Kevin Pratt has 13 years of experience as a researcher and designer and is a principal of the multidisciplinary design and research practice EPIPHYTE Lab. He is expert in the use of computational technologies and their application to the process of sustainable design.

In addition to Cornell, Pratt has been a visiting critic and lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his bachelor’s in architecture (Magna Cum Laude) from Columbia University and an M.A. from the Environment and Energy Programme at the Architectural Association in London.

• Arch 3101 Design VI
• Arch 3601 Environmental Systems II
• Arch 3602 Environmental Systems III
• Arch 5116 Vertical Design Studios
• Arch 4619 Finding Sustainable Form

• "On Geoengineering," Artforum (November 2008)
• "The Ends of the Parabola," Artforum (June 2008)
• "Using Energy Analysis as a Basis for Design Methodologies and Decision Making in Sustainable Architecture," Solar Architecture and Urban Planning, 1st ed., vol. 3, pp. 177-183 (2009)

• Cornell Center for a Sustainable Future, fellow
• AIA Brunner Grant (2009)
• CCSF-AVF Vibro Wind Technologies Grant
• CCSF-AVF Computational Environments for Sustainable Design Grant

• Work of EPIPHYTE Lab featured in Wild Wild East, AIT Architektur Salon, Hamburg (2010)
• Thermodynamic Hammock — The Renewability Exhibition, Mile End Park, London

• EPIPHYTE Lab